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“Bellefonte, Pa., December 10, 1920.
THIS IS SOMZ C[ISTIONARY
Arabic Affair Used by Schelars isin 20
Volumes and Weighs About
100 Pcunds.
‘The ponderous dictionaries of Eu-
rope, even the famous many-volumed
ctymological index of Larousse, which
is the monumental work of all modern
tongues, are more than surpassed,
says the New York Sun, by the Arabic
dictioparies of 500 years ago, which
are still the great authority for stu-
dents in that language.
The Arabic dictionary most used by
scholars who are familiar with no
other language is in 20 quarto vol-
umes and weighs close to 100 pounds.
There is a 50-pound ten-volume abridg-
ment of it, presumably for use at
home. This and virtually all the Ara-
bic dictionaries were made in the
time of the Harun-al-Rashid.
The Islamic empire is credited by
Moslems with two great eras. The
first was that of conquest, when the
only history was written with the
sword. Then came centuries of Mo-
hammedan domination, when the Mos-
lems peacefully held the empires they
had conquered in Asia and in the Ibe-
rian peninsula. During these art and
literature flourished and the Arabic
dictionary was born. In Arabia the
flower of this period was in the goldan
time of Caliph Harun-al-Rashid.
Each of the words that have been
familiar in the daily life of the no-
mad Arabs for centuries has an enor-
mous number of synonyms. The lion,
for example, was feared by villagers
and hunted not only for sport but
as a matter of uecessity. Therefore
in the Arabic dictionary the lion has
more than a hundred different namcs.
The camel was the sole means of
{ransportation across the thirsty des-
erts and is characterized in 122 adif-
ferent ways.
But above all, the horse and the
sword were the two great stand-bys
of the Arab. There are more than 200
words that convey ideas of “horse”
and “sword.” All other familiar
words, such as tent, flock, herds, wa-
ter, woman, sun and air, have long
lists of synonyms that are interchange-
able and in constant use. This affords
some slight explanation why Arabic
dictionaries are of so large size.
Arabic, so the Arabs say, was the
language of the Babylonians, and it
is also contended by them that it was
the tongue which Abraham spoke.
REVERE’S BELL PRESERVED
Still Hangs in King's Chapel in Boston
—Was Man of Many Accom-
plishments. i
In the belfry of King's Chapel,
built when Boston was in its infancy,
still hangs a bell which was cast by
Paul Revere. It was his 181st bell
Besides being a bell caster, Revere
was also an engraver, a goldsmith
and a dentist. Rising above the
modest houses in the Italian district
on Hull street is the old North
church, from which Revere received
his signal previous to his famous
midnight ride.
Christ church, the Second Episcopal
church of Boston, is situated in the
north end, and is an offshoot of King’s
Chapel. Its spire, designed and built
in 1728, has served as a landmark to
guide ships into the harbor.
In 1804 this spire was blown down
by a great gale, and was shortened
by sixteen feet. The chime of bells,
now silent, which hangs in the tower,
was made in 1774, in the foundry of
Abel Ruddall, of Gloucester, England.
Each bell has engraved upon it an in-
scription denoting its history. The
bells were supposed to possess the
power to dispel evil spirits.—Detroit
News.
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Never Stuck.
My neighbor boasted proudly that
his car was superior to any in the
country. According to him, it was al-
ways in good working order and never
got stuck.
One day in early spring we passed
him stuck in a mud hole not far frem
town.
We could not resist the temptation
to call out and say, “Hey, there, are
you stuck?”
Still he would not own up to it and
answered : “Nope, just having a little
trouble getting enough power to get
out of here.”
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The Family Tree. |
Seven-year-old Mary Jane has an
aunt, who is a schoolteacher and who
is also very self willed. At Mary
Jane’s home whenever the little girl
displays any evidence of stubbornness, |
her parents stralghtway call her Aunt
FARM NOTES.
— More silos are needed.
— Sheep are dual purpose animals—
wool in the spring and lambs in the
fall.
—No farm home is complete with-
out its local newspaper, its farm pa-
per and its daily paper.
It is claimed that buttermilk giv-
en toa horse will serve better than
any other remedy for bots.
— “The cedar tree is all right in the
grave-yard, but it is one of the worst
enemies of the fruit orchard.”
For further information, write the
Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsyi-
vania Department of Agriculture,
Harrisburg.
—A mulching of straw on the
strawberry bed, after the ground
freezes will give large returns for the
time spent in doing the work.
— Muskrat hides, once worth about
36 cents, sold for $7.50 at the St. Lou-
is fur auction last spring. Fur buy-
ers say the supply of muskrat skins in
the market is decreasing at the rate
of 50 per cent. a year.
— Are the rats and mice getting in
the stored grain? All corncribs and
feed bins should be carefully inspect- |
ed to see that they are rat and mouse }
proof. A concrete foundation foi |
storage buildings is advisable when-
ever it is practicable.
— Vibration of the cream separator |
while working is one cause of an un- |
clean skimming, resulting in too much !
fat being left in the skim milk. First, |
have the separator on a solid level |
foundation, then fix it firmly so that |
it will not vibrate while working. !
—_The amount of potash in the dif-
ferent wood ashes varies. In ash
there is 84.7 per cent.; white oak,
29.9; dogwood, 20.2; hickory, 18.9; |
sycamore, 18.2; red oak, 16.4; post |
oak, 15.4; magnolia, 14.5; yellow pine, |
12.9; black pine, 10.4; old field pine, |
2.5.
—One of the largest sources of rev- |
enue of the Pennsylvania farmers,
with the exception of dairy products, |
is from poultry and egg production, |
yet the average farmer does not real
ize this and gives the matter very lit- |
tle attention. It is time now to get!
the fowls off the trees and into com- |
fortable winter quarters. |
—1It is claimed that pouring butter
milk freely along the back of sheep |
will prove a remedy for ticks. If a
gill of kerosene is added to a gallon |
of buttermilk, the remedy will be im-
proved, as the kerosene forms an|
emulsion with buttermilk and does no |
harm to the animal. The remedy will |
cost but little and should have a trial |
by way of experiment.
The protection needs vary accord- |
ing to location, but everywhere in|
Pennsylvania hives should be protect- |
ed with outside covers and packing, |
or the hives placed in cellars arrang-
ed and constructed for the purpose. !
The cbject is to maintain a constant |
hive temperature of 52 degrees F., |
which brings about a minimum of ac-:
tivity and consumption of stores by
the bees.
— Instead of using nothing but salt!
in your pork curing this winter, try |
mixing o little sugar and salt petre
with your sait and see whether your!
hams and bacons will not taste better. |
The salt petre causes the meat to hold
from becoming hard and dry. For 100
pounds of meat, use twelve pounds of
two cunces of salt petre.
—System on the farm is as import-
ant as system in any other business.
System consistes of doing things at
the right time, of planning to econo-
profit out of the land, of economizing, |
of spending judiciously, of never put-
ting off until tomorrow what should
be done today. There should be a
place for everything and everything in
its place. This saves much precious
time. Map out work for rainy days
so that the help can be profitably em-
ployed. It is a golden rule in system
to keep ahead of the work, plan and
organize so that the tasks more or
less will fall in line. Make visits
about the place and note what needs
repairing. Then see that it is done at
once. Keep constantly planning.
——Thousands of colonies of honey
bees in Pennsylvania that receive rea-
sonable attention through a greater
part of the year, are allowed to shift
for themselves throughout the winter
under the erroneous impression that
the bees hibernate like other insects.
This condition has been found by the
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
ture, which keeps in close touch with
the bee keepers of the State, through
its apiary inspection service.
Three things are absolutely essen-
tial if the bees are to be brought
through the winter in prime shape.
They must be provided with an abun-
dance of stores of good quality, must
have protection from the wind and
cold and must have ample room for
rearing brood at appropriate times.
Stores of good quality consists of
honey well ripened and of sufficient
quantity to supply colony needs un-
til the spring honey flow. If bees are
wintered out doors at least 45 pounds
of honey should be allowed for each
colony.
—Sheep breeders in Pennsylvania
suffer a heavy loss each year from in-
roads made in the flocks by stomach
worms and intestinal parasites. The
Pennsylvania Department of Agricul-
Mary.
One day she was over to auntie’s |
and with her was discussing her fu- |
ture occupation. “You'll probably be |
a schoolteacher like me,” auntie said.
“Qh, I suppose I had better be one,” |
the youngster agreed, “If I wasn’t
one whom would they say my little
nieces take after when they get stub- |
born and want their own way?”
Discovers a Paint Mine.
Prospectors who had been digging
vainly for gold on Mullet Island in the
Salton sea of Southern California have
just discovered that the highly color-
ed mud around the island consists of
saluable mineral pigments, from which
paints of many colors ¢an be made.
ture, through its Bureau of Animal
Industry has perfected the drench
treatment for sheep and experiments
conducted over a period of years has
| shown the treatment to afford highly
beneficial results.
At the request of The Pennsylvania
State College and the county farm
agent of Greene county, Dr. T. BE.
Munce, head of the bureau of animal
| industry recently sent an expert from
| his bureau to Greene county where a
‘number of interesting demonstrations
were conducted. Greene county is one
of the biggest sheep growing counties
in the State and the results obtained
from the demonstration were so suc-
cessful that they will be repeated in
other counties.
The demonstrations are held in co-
operation with the local veterinar-
its color while the sugar prevents it ©
salt, two pounds of brown sugar and |
mize labor, of getting every scrap of |
iang in each community.
HOPE INSTEAD OF DESPAIR
Inscription Suggested for Portal of
British Institution Would Seem
Peculiarly Happy.
———
Above the entrance to the prison on
Dartmoor, Eng., which is now to be
done away with, two Latin words are
cut into the stone, which may be ren-
dered “Spare the vanquished,” and it
was in this spirit the French prison-
ers in the Napoleonic wars as well as
American prisoners in the War of 1812
were received and treated, and in time
HAMLET 10DIL YOUNG MAN |
Virter Dretapan TT
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Vea: Pe loot Laidyts Pericot
Czantlomon?
We are told in sy riny words that
he was a model young man. He has
presented the Knzlish language with
two of Its stercoiyped plirases for the
| marking of a standardized perfection;
! he is culled “the glass of fashion and
allowed te live on parole in the neigh- |
boring villages and towns.
Stories of these refined and charm-
ing hostages have delighted the heart
of youthful readers of many genera-
tions, and the work done by them in
carving and carpentering is still care-
fully treasured in many a home in
Dartmoor to the present day. Little
could they have imagined that the fine
alr would make Dartmoor as famous
a resort as some of the highlands of
Switzerland. and that after having be- |
come a convict prison about G0 years |
ago, the place of their incarceration
would be turned inte an institution
the mold of form.” The utterance of
these words by Ophelia is as illumina-
tive as the words themselves. It is
plain that the youthful Hamlet lives
up meticulously, net only to conven-
tional, but to’ feminine, to maidenly,
standards of propriety and excellence.
He is the perfect lady’s perfect gentle-
man, O. W. Firkins writes in the North |
American Review.
But we do not need Ophelia’s testi-
mony; listen to the young man him- |
self. His mother urges him not to re-
turn to college. “I shall in all my best
obey vou, Madam,” he replies with a
filial decorum which Samuel Richard-
son or Hannah More could not have
| mended, Observe the nature of his ob-
for training lods on the Borstal sys- ©
tem. The boy: will have freedom, and
i will be acquiring a knowledge of farm-
ing and reclamation work, as well as
other mean: of gaining a living and
fitting them to become valuable mer
bers of society. The boys will be
merely hosta «nd ancther legend
should be carved over the gateway,
this time something more suitable to
the occasion, such us “Take hope, all
you who enter here”—Christian Sei-
ence Monitor.
“THRIFT” THAT DOESN'T PAY
| Some Suggacticns for the Housekeeper
and for Thcse Who Are
Too Saving.
There are some thrift suggestions
that do not always pay, remarks &
writer in the New York Sun.
to save the ice when by so deing you
will keep the rest of the icebox from
teing kept cool. You may save yorr
ice, but you may lose more than the
worth of the ice in meat and vegeta-
les that have been spoiled.
It doesn’t pay to make a cake with-
out butter or eggs when you have to
throw half of the cake away because
no one will eat it.
It doesn’t pay to do your own house-
cleaning to save the expense of a wom-
an hy the day when this means that
you are net abie to have dinner at
home nt an expense of rather more
(han new material would cost.
1t doesn’t pay to deal with a grocer
«who vnderselis the other grocers a lit:
tle hecause he has no delivery service
| wher: you spend an hour in getting
cour supplies in order to save 10 cents.
There sre other ways that you can
make an hour's time worth much more
than that.
It doesn’t pay to set sO economical
table that your children and your
husband will have a craving for candy
and between meals that will cost very
mueh more than would be needed to
cot a really bountiful table.
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Trees riard to Kill
When a tree is cut to the ground
and the root is left to rot, all the
forces seem to rally round the dor-
mant leafbuds contained in the old
roots. Subsequently. strong new
shoots grow, in much the same man-
ner as from pollard willows.
With the saplings and peasticks,
{he case is the same as with shrubs,
because, purposely or inadvertently,
some leafbuds on the stem have bren
buried under the earth.
Although oak stakes are rarely
found among those which flourish un-
der such conditions, vet there is a
caze now in a Welsh colliery, where
a plece of oak timber, supporting the
roof, has developed branches like mini-
ature trees, which have grown to a
length of three or four feet.
These are thickly covered with fully
opened leaves of pale green, tipped
with pink.
They live in utter darkness, and
present a most peculiar sight when
revealed by the light of a passing
safety lamp.
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Measuring Mammoth Cave.
An odd method has been used in
measuring the height of some of the
creat chambers in the Mammoth cave.
The experimenter had little balloons
made of a special pattern, with thin-
ner and more elastic rubber than that
of common toy balloons. Then, with
five balloons tied in a cluster, and
each inflated with hydrogen to a diam-
eter of 10 inches, he began his at-
tempts. An acetylene light revealed
the balloons when they touched the
top. The measuring tape was a light
thread. The Rotunda was found to De
just 40 feet high, and the Mammoth
dome 119 feet 6 inches. But in the
vast temple called Gorin’s dome, wan-
dering air-currents rendered the bal-
loons unmanageable.
Writings Ascribed to Jews.
It is believed today by many savants
that the Old Testament description of
Solomon's temple was written by the
Jews after their return from captiv-
ity, with the memory of the real
splendors of Babylon fresh in thelr
minds, says Anstruther Mackay, writ-
ing in the Atlantic Monthly.
It Is possible that the actual temple
was a simple place of worship. If it
bad been otherwise, it is hardly possi-
ble that no remains of it would be
visible today, seeing that the.temples
of Egypt, which are so much older, re-
main, in some cases, almost in toto.
icetions to suicide:
Oh, that the Everiasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
lie condemns the act, not because it
| is cowardly or simply immoral, but be-
couse it is unecanonical, unseriptural.
tere {3 a young man in whom his
catechist or confessor may rejoice.
With such a person it is obviously
hazardous to joke. When Horatio, his
fellow student, calis himself a truant,
Hamlet solemnly defends him against
the chargsa:
i would not hear your enemy £ay So.
Clearly this is a young collegian
who never “vext the souls of deans.”
We see him assiduous at lectures,
! methodical in his notes. Shakespeare
has not forgotten to inform us that he
© kept a note book. Within two minutes
after his father’s ghost has ended the
i appalling tale of the murder in the
garden, the young prince is jotting
down by moonlight an invaluable
: : memorandum about the relations of
Tt doesn't pay, for instance, to wrap ! 3 : i
| the ice in your icebox up in newspaper !
smiles to villany. Do I mean that
ITamlet is a fool? Not at all. Hamlet
has a strong mind, but its strength is
chown at the outset in the docility and
thoroughness of its assent to the
proposition of its teachers.
FIRST VENTURE OF LIPTON
Friend Tells How He Took Chance |
With Patrons of a Rundown
Grocery.
Dr. J. H. Ostrander, a personal
‘riend ot Sir Thomas Lipton, teld re-
cently for the first time the story of
Lipton’s initia 1 business venture, an
exchange states.
Lipton’s first business venture was
an event in one little corner of Glas-
gow. He bought for a few pounds #
sorry old rundown provision shop that
had changed hands a score of times;
everybody had failed. It was in a
neighborhood where prefits were
meager and housewives close traders, ;
and where sharp practice and indiffer- |
So when |
ent ethics precluded credit.
Lipton announced that he would trust
any decent neighbor once all foresaw
his doom.
Lipton, however, did not mean that
he would carry accounts 30 days, {or
at this period five such accounts would
Lave swamped him. As he himself
put it: “In misfortune I will carry
any decent chap till Saturday night.
I will be a friend to you in spite of
prevailing business rules; but if you
break faith with me you will lose a
friend and I will lose my business.”
Thus he put them on their honor. And
it won; won because sympathy and
fellowship dominated the boy and ex-
cited like attributes in others.
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Of the Eye of a Frog.
The smallest camera in the world
which has actually “taken” pictures is
doubtless the eye of the frog, says
Boys’ Life. It has been found that if
a frog is kept in the dark for some
time the retina of the eye, on being
dissected, is found to have a purple
reddish color which fades away or be-
comes bleached on exposure to day-
light. If the eye be placed in front of
a window and left there, or “exposed”
for some time, and then fixed in a 4
per cent solution of alum the opto-
gram is partially fixed and retains an
inverted picture of the window. It is
claimed that by a similar photographic
process the last picture or image re-
tained by the eye of a dead man or
animal may be preserved.
AN OLD, OLD STORY
Woman's Untiring Effort to Preserve
Her Natural Beauty and
Charm.
When a woman's skin is pale and
colorless and the complexion is marred
by unsightly pimples, blotches, blem-
{shes or muddy colored liver spots, it
is the unfail sign of nature that the
blood is im@@verished and is laden
with health destroying impurities.
Every woman who desires a fair
natural complexion should know that
a cupfull of Bulgarian Blood Tea tak-
en at bedtime once or twice a week
will improve her health and natural
complexion in a very short time.
By relieving constipation and en-
riching the blood stream, the skin will
reflect the glow of health that only
pure blood can give—Therefore every
person desiring a tonic to assist na-
ture to eliminate the poisons that make
life miserable will do well to consid
er trying Bulgarian Blood Tea, and be-
sides it is a valuable aid in assisting
nature to break up a bad cold and
guard against influenza, pneumonia or
other serious sickness.
Just ask your druggist or grocer to-
day for a trial package of Bulgarian
Blood Tea.
Shoes.
Shoes.
Iznchely Dana |!
Just Like Going
“Bare-Footed?”
—that’s what the ‘‘Kiddies’’ say about
An ideal shoe for the active “wide awake,’” boy or girl.
knocks’ and comes back for
2¢ encugh for most any oceasion—rugged
rad
A shoe that lcuchs at *
more. Good look
enough for guy service.
Youngster shocs ave
able. Fit the foc
for strenuous ex
And youngster ghocs
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tat hes mode good,’
Light, Cool, Strong and Cemfort-
1 bend with every step, a shoe
day usage—-that will wear like iron.
are not expensive-—
as the first cost is no more (in many instances less) than any
other grade of children’s shoes, and besides this, we give you
two pair at a little more than the cost of one.
Qur Factory Rebuilding Service
Makes an old pair of ‘ Youngster’’ shoes wear like new,
by re-building them from the ‘ground up,’” with all neces-
sary parts, such as ncw out soles, new in-soles, counters,
laces, buttons, in fact everything that is needed to make the
shoe wear like new.
_ Please don’t eonfuse this “rebuilding serviee’’ with the
ordinary job of ‘‘repairing’’ or ‘‘cobbling.”’
shoes are re-built at the factory, by
the same ‘‘last’’ that the shoe was originally made on.
Come in and let us show you how well this work is done.
Let us prove to you that we can furnish you with two pairs
of shoes, for a little more than the cost of one.
Youngster shoes run in all children’s sizes—at prices
‘‘Re-building Service’’ costs $1.35.
from g295 to $4.00.
YEAGER'’S SHOE STORE,
Bellefonte,
Penna.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class
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Adjustment Sale
To Lower Prices
STILL GOING ON
Everybody can afford to buy here now. The in-
creased business we are doing shows our methods
are liked.
Christmas Shopping Time Here
We are ready to fill your list for the gifts for the
family, whether it be father, mother, sister, brother
or friend. We can give you a big assortment of use-
ful and beautiful presents. Our reduced prices will
put them in reach of everyone.
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